Brookline, MA jobs, layoffs and employers

16 open professional jobs in Brookline. Brookline is in Norfolk County.

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Employers hiring most in Brookline

  1. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute7 open roles
  2. Boston Children's Hospital6 open roles
  3. Advocates For A Healthy Community1 open role
  4. Children's Hospital Boston1 open role
  5. Massachusetts Nonprofit Network1 open role
  6. Universal Hospital Services1 open role
  7. Voices Boston1 open role

Brookline layoffs

No layoff notices naming Brookline in the last 12 months are on file. The WARN Act covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.

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Colleges in Brookline

Colleges in Brookline
CollegeTypeStudents
Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis IncPrivate non-profit 4-yearUnder 1,000
Hellenic College-Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of TheologyPrivate non-profit 4-yearUnder 1,000

Norfolk County outlook: Steady

Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.

  • Private-sector jobs up 2.1% from 2022 to 2025
  • Population up 2.2% from 2020 to 2025
  • Unemployment 3.9%, down 0.2 points from a year ago
  • Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+3,795 jobs), admin & staffing (+2,228 jobs)
  • Sectors losing the most jobs: information (−2,011 jobs), finance & insurance (−1,075 jobs)

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Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Brookline. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

Laid off in Massachusetts? How to file for unemployment in Massachusetts (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).

  • Brockton Area Workforce Investment Board DBA MassHire Greater Brockton Workforce Board

    Towns: Abington, Avon, Bridgewater, Brockton, East Bridgewater, Easton, Hanson, Stoughton, West Bridgewater, Whitman

  • MassHire SouthShore Workforce Board

    Towns: Braintree, Carver, Cohasset, Duxbury, Halifax, Hanover, Hingham, Holbrook, Hull, Kingston, Marshfield, Middleborough, Milton, Norwell, Pembroke, Plymouth, Plympton, Quincy, Randolph, Rockland, Scituate, Weymouth

  • Metro South/West Workforce Board, Inc.

    Towns: Acton, Ashland, Bedford, Bellingham, Boxborough, Brookline, Canton, Carlisle, Concord, Dedham, Dover, Foxborough, Framingham, Franklin, Holliston, Hopkinton, Hudson, Lexington, Lincoln, Littleton, Marlborough, Maynard, Medfield, Medway, Millis, Natick, Needham, Newton, Norfolk, Norwood, Plainville, Sharon, Sherborn, Southborough, Stow, Sudbury, Walpole, Waltham, Wayland, Wellesley, Weston, Westwood, Wrentham

Norfolk County economy

  • 3.9%

    unemployment, Sep 2026

    4.1% the month before

  • 415,556

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 724,540

    people in Norfolk County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $126,497

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 59%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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Sources: Layoff notices from Massachusetts’s published record; job counts from our live job board, taken from employers’ own career sites; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers; Census Bureau and BLS for county figures. Massachusetts unemployment benefits and severance rules.

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